Word: demanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were signs that Europe was getting off relief, and getting to the point where the U.S. could demand considerable selfhelp. ECA aid was coming into a second stage, where immediate food and fuel supplies could be replaced by the machinery and equipment to produce a permanent recovery...
...matter what they did, producers could not satisfy the increased demand for almost all types of steel. Even alloy steels, relatively plentiful a few months ago, are again scarce. With current allocations calling for 6.2 million tons (out of 66 million tons annual production) the pinch will become painful about November. How much tighter would it get? Some estimates, including ECA needs and other export requirements, put the total set aside at 16 million tons. If so, production of such consumer goods as autos and refrigerators would probably have...
Despite the industry's fast growth during the war-when plastics took the place of scarce strategic materials-most plastics makers still have not caught up with demand. Though many a Gloomy Gus predicted that plastics would glut the market when scarce materials became more plentiful, they are now displacing metals in some lines (e.g., toys, 40% of which are now made of plastics). They have become standard materials for flash light cases, radio cabinets, toilet seats, shower curtains, raincoats, furniture coverings, electrical appliances. They have even been tried as eye-catching bathing suits (see cut), but wearers complain...
...leper." Grant spends his life chasing women and dollars with obsessive passion; he is not a hypocrite, since he lacks the degree of self-awareness necessary for hypocrisy; he is simply an ugly tub of flesh who snatches and grabs, whimpers and bellows, cringes and brutalizes as his pleasures demand, without ever feeling the slightest genuine regard for anyone. He invites women to his room for "a little tea, a little chat," tells them that "a woman like you could keep a man. I'm looking for an oasis in my desert, a rose on a blasted heath...
...combination to a safe packed with black gold. It specializes in getting oil from wells that have run dry. By literally shooting out the oil with a gadget called a gun perforator, Lane-Wells has increased the yield of U.S. wells by an estimated $200 million. Last week, with demand for oil at a peak, the company was booming as never before. For five consecutive months, it has grossed more than $1,000,000 a month. With a second-quarter net of $1,143,200, Lane-Wells was earning around $6 a share, about four times its prewar rate...